On Thursday 30 December 2004 12:09 pm, Robert G. Scofield wrote: > On Thursday 30 December 2004 11:21, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > On Thu 30 Dec 04, 11:11 AM, Robert G. Scofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > If you run two distros, you probably want different home directories. > > > > If you wanted to "test" out a distro, there's no crime in making a single > > partition system. It's definitely not what you want to use for your "for > > reals" system, but for the purposes of taking an OS out on a test drive, > > it's perfectly reasonable to do. > > > > How can you have two home directories? For example these are the relevant > partitions on this system: > > /dev/hdb2 has SuSE 9.2 > /dev/hdb3 is the spare > /dev/hdb7 is /home > > It seems like any new distro put into /dev/hdb3 will automatically > use /dev/hdb7 (which SuSE 9.2 is using), right? Is there anyway to install a > new distro on /dev/hdb3 and have it use a /home on /dev/hdb3?
I would expect that to be the default. If the new distro does somehow figure out that you were using hdb7 for /home and decides to make that the default, it should at least give you a chance to override it. -- Rod _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
